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Public Services Manual: Library Spaces

Library Spaces Overview

Study zones

  • Floor maps for public computers & labs in Bronfman, Frost, Scott, & Steacie libraries.
Branch Study Zones - Book a space online

Peter F. Bronfman Business Library

 

Conversation-friendly zones: Group study rooms

Individual room: Appropriate for interviews, meetings and individual study

Quiet zones: Public computer area, 2nd floor open seating area

Online class-friendly zone: 2nd floor Study Room

Cell phones should be set to vibrate setting in the library. Cell phones may not be used at the library. Users should be told to temporarily leave the library while they are receiving or making a call.

Leslie Frost Library (Glendon)

 

Conversation-friendly zones: Current Periodical Reading Room (basement) and group study rooms

Quiet zones: 1st floor lobby, 2nd floor computers and carrels, and basement carrels 

Silent zone: 1st floor Reading Room
Markham Campus Library

Conversation-friendly zones: Collaborative study space (3020), Group study rooms, and Mixed use space (3045)

Quiet zones: Main collection (3036), Graduate student study space (3015), and Media creation desks (3060)

Silent zone: Quiet study space (3010)

Scott Library

 

Conversation-friendly zones: 1st floor Atrium, 2nd floor Collaboratory, balconies on stacks floors

Online class-friendly zone: 3rd floor bookable spaces

Quiet zones: Map Collection (1st floor), Sound and Moving Image Collection (1st floor), Reading Rooms (1st & 2nd floor), Salon (2nd floor), Graduate Student Reading Room (4th floor), 5th floor study areas (except balconies)

Silent zone: 4th floor study areas (except balconies)

Steacie Science & Engineering Library

Study zones include quiet and silent areas which are unofficially enforced by staff.

Group study rooms

Before you visit:

  • Students must check in within 15 minutes of the reservation start time or their booking is automatically cancelled.
  • Rooms can be booked up to one week in advance.
  • Minimum 2 people in a group study room. Individuals will be asked to leave.
  • Group study rooms have a 3-hour maximum booking period.
  • No food allowed in study rooms. Only spill-proof drinks.

York U Libraries food policy

Accommodative spaces

Adaptive Lab - Scott & Markham Campus Library

Family Room - Scott Library

  • Quiet, private space for parents or caregivers and their young children.

Graduate Student Reading Room - Scott & Markham Campus Library

  • Quiet study space for graduate students. Access by YU-card.
  • 122 seats at tables and carrels, as well as lounge seating.
  • 6 computers and a printer.
  • Scott Library
    • Grad Study Room swipe issues 
      • Direct them to https://www.yorku.ca/safety/access/ and ask them to click the “If, after answering the above questions, you are still experiencing trouble with your access card or a reader, please fill out this form to contact Door Card.” under “My card is not working”

Bronfman Business Library and Steacie Sciences and Engineering Library

  • Accessible furniture, scanners, computers, software, and printing.
  • A single workstation in a public space in both locations
  • For students registered with Student Accessibility Services.

Indigenous Reading Room (Miinkaanensing)

  • Miinkaanensing (pronounced mee-ni-kahn-en-sing)
  • Located in Room 202E of the Scott Library
  •  Miinkaanensing offers space for individuals or study groups up to 10 people and features a small collection of current Indigenous resources.
  • There are plans to further develop it as a pilot project with, for example, the additions of a listening station and Indigenous artworks
  • Feedback is encouraged to reach out to Cora Coady by email at ccoady@yorku.ca.

 

Lost & Found information

Lost & Found Office - Central Square [Ross S107]

  • Phone 416 736 5534, or email lost@yorku.ca

  Lost & Found Information
Bronfman

Lost Valuables Form is in its own binder on the book truck at the circulation desk. It must be filled in and witnessed by another staff member. If the owner of the valuable can be identified, ask the circulation person on duty to look them up in the system. Staff generally phone or email the person and then place the valuable in the locked cupboard in the staff workroom.

USB Keys -  Staff look to see if there is a resume or some document that identifies the owner and then look them up and send them an email. Staff then label the USB key and put it in a small box for USB keys that is in the Lost & Found drawer beside the reference desk.

Everything else (textbooks, keys, calculators, notebooks, water bottles etc.) goes in the Lost & Found drawer beside the reference desk. If a water bottle has water in it, please empty it out before putting it in the drawer.  
 Frost Please ask at the service desk. Lost Valuables Forms are in a red folder at service desk. Give valuable items to Glendon Security (except YU-Cards which are held in coordinator's fffice).
 Markham Please ask at the library help desk (3036). Lost and found items are tracked using an Excel spreadsheet and stored in 3036A. Give valuable items to Markham Campus Security (except YUCards which are held in coordinators' office).
Scott Ask Us Desk

Steacie

Lost & Found items are at the circulation desk.

  • Large items are stored in a box near the entrance. 
  • Smaller items are located in the top long drawer at the desk.
  • The reference desk may keep found items in a drawer until the end of the day/shift, at which time items are given to the circulation desk.

​Use discretion to verify the patron’s identity before releasing valuable items.

 

If identifying information is available on the found items and/or the owner is listed in the YU directory, staff may contact the patron to alert him/her that the item was found.

 

If patrons can provide their last location at the library, staff may offer to check for the item if time permits.
  Washrooms
Bronfman There are no public washrooms in the library.  Washrooms are located in W296- Women and W298 - Men, both with accessible stalls.
Frost

1st Floor: Gender neutral, Accessible

2nd Floor: Women's, Gender neutral

Basement: Men's
Markham Men's washrooms, women's washrooms, and a gender-neutral accessible washroom are all located on the same floor as the library (3rd floor), across from the Staff Processing Area (3005) and the Library Classroom (3000).
Scott

Washrooms are located on the 2nd floor behind and to the right side of Learning Commons. Also on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors. Turn left when you exit the escalators, washrooms are on the left side.

Wheelchair accessible washrooms are also there beside the washrooms and available on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors
Steacie

Public washrooms are outside Steacie.

 

Closest public washrooms:

  • Exit library, turn left, walk towards the building's Campus Walk entrance
  • Turn down the hall to the left of the main building doors

Gender neutral accessible washroom (hallway near Steacie building's north entrance)

  • Exit library, turn right, walk towards building entrance near athletics track
  • Washroom is last door to the left in hall behind the door just inside interior building double doors

Other public washrooms:

  • Basement by each building entrance
  • Lassonde building (behind the ground floor lecture hall entrance)

Locked washrooms (keys in key cabinet):

  • Female staff washroom (beside accessible public washroom) - most full time female staff have a key
  • Disabled patron & staff washroom (library basement).

Key Contacts

Noise Complaints? Housekeeping Issues? Other Study Space Queries?

Issues can be brought in person to the appropriate service desk. Please call Facilities Hotline for help.

  • Facilities Hotline 

416-712-2703

 

 

            Manager, Library Facilities

           Manager, Library Student Engagement

CCSD Supervisor